word-typen.

1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia ii. ii. 475 He had turned his attention to various improvements in printing..and to the introduction of other double letters, which he proposed to call logotypes, that is, word-types.

1850 Sci. Amer. 23 Mar. 212/2 A practical printer..has succeeded in introducing..the use of word types. That is, he causes such words as the, and, in, to, and all the most common syllables to be cast on one body.

1925 T. F. Carter Invention of Printing in China xxii. 168 The discovery at Tunhuang consists entirely of word-type, in slavish imitation of the Chinese system.

1962 J. K. Gates Guide to Use of Bks. & Libraries i. i. 20 Movable word types made of clay originated in China but were used very little.

1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iv. i. 458 The natural word-type of duty and righteousness.

1911 S. S. Colvin Learning Process (1931) vii. 108 The word-types of images, as can be readily seen, are symbolic; they stand for concrete realities, which, however, generally are not revived in connection with the symbol.

1936 D. C. Williams in Jrnl. Philos. 33 702 Any one particular instance of a word is a word-token... Let us call a ‘word-type’ a class or kind of defining character of a class of tokens which are similar to one another in certain essential aspects.

1959 Language 35 275 To every word (i.e. word-type, not each occurrence of the ‘same’ word) in a very long text may be assigned a probability of occurrence.

1976 Biometrika 63 435 How many word types did Shakespeare actually know?

1995 Computers & Humanities 29 336/1 A type is a form, a word-shape that differs from others, thus develop, developed, develops, developing, developer are all different word-types.